Carnival Freedom Review

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Awesome family fun on the Freedom!

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Freedom
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buckeyemommy16
2-5 Cruises • Age 20s

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Sail Date: Aug 2011
Cabin: Balcony

Background: We are an mid to early 30's couple (hanging on to the early 30's as long as I can!) cruising with a 7 year old daughter and an 8 month old son. My husband and I have been on four Carnival cruises and took our daughter on a Norwegian cruise two years ago.

Before/Embarkation: Drove from Ohio and was going to stay in Orlando the night before. Changed plans and went on to Ft. Lauderdale and booked a hotel over the phone with Park Sleep Fly.com on the way between Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale. Hotel was wonderful, Hyatt Place on 18th St. in Dania Beach; $109 for the night and it included parking for the week. Was told over the phone the shuttle to the cruise port was free. We'd decided that with the baby we would take our car to the cruise port, drop the luggage, and then my husband would park the car at the hotel and ride the shuttle back. They informed him it would be $8. With no time to argue, he paid it and arrived back at the cruise port about 1pm. Line was semi long but seemed to be moving fast. We were told due to the stroller we could use the VIP line. This was only through security and not for checking in. This was fine with us since we didn't expect it in the first place! We waited about another half hour for checking in and we were off to the ship.

Room: We zipped right up to the 11th floor and went straight to our room, a category 8F balcony. The room met my expectations in size and worked just fine for our family of four. Such an awesome view up that high! Our daughter loved the upper bunk and alternated between that and the lower bed. We chose this floor because the spa is on the floor and there are so few cabins hoping for both quiet and as not to disturb many fellow guests if the baby would fuss. It did not disappoint. We did have some semi-noisy neighbors at times in the night in the hallways but nothing major. There was also some noise above from we assume some morning chair placing by the crew at the kid's pool. It was nothing major to stop me from booking this floor again.

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Balcony

Cabin 8F

Mainly quiet location, a little bit of noise in the morning from deck chairs in the kiddie pool area but overall great. AWESOME view!

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